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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
THE FOLLOWING POSITION IS AVAILABLE

PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT REPAIRER needed in Oakland. Repairs tunes & maintains percussion instruments. 2 yrs/exp. Reqd. verifiable job ref.; 8am-4pm M-F; $14.74/hr.

THIS NOTICE IS BEING POSTED BECAUSE AN APPLICATION FOR PERMANENT LABOR CERTIFICATION HAS BEEN FILED FOR PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT REPAIRER ANY PERSON MAY RPOVIDE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE BEARING ON THIS APPLICATION TO THE:

Certifying Officer
Employment & Training Administration
Division of Foreign Labor Certification
700 North Pearl St. Suit 510
Dallas, TX 75201

HISTORIC CALYPSO AT ITS VERY BEST

There was no more cosmopolitan island in the world than Trinidad. Once under Spanish rule, it became a British colony. African, Spanish, French, British, American, even east Indian influences coalesced into the music.

Then came New Orleans jazz. And then came some of the most insightful social commentary found in any music anywhere. Ever. It was an intoxicating musical cocktail that sometimes reached the mainland (as when Rum And Coca Cola became a hit or when Harry Belafonte popularized the music), but the REAL calypso music was rarely heard outside the islands or the Trinidadian enclaves of New York or London.

Now Bear Family transports you back to Port of Spain, Trinidad during Carnival in 1938, 1939, and 1940...http://www.bear-family.de/tabel1/product/bcd16623_e.htm

VANDEN'S PAN PASSION HEADLINES CRABFEED

The Vanden Pan Passion steel drum band will be part of a Music Program during a crabfeed on January 19, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church on Dover Ave in Fairfield.

The menu will include: Fresh Crab or 1/2 a roasted chicken, Fresh Pasta, Oven-Baked Garlic Bread, and Handmade Garden Salad, dessert & No-host bar. Vanden's Jazz bands are also included in the live musical entertainment.

The cost is just $35 per person. There will be raffles, silent auctions and a 50/50 raffle too. Please contact me immediately by email or phone to reserve your tickets: Leslie Smith 707-446-7677 or cell 707-365-9942.

ARNOLD DUPREY - THINKER, CREATOR, MAN, DEPARTED

Arnold Duprey, avid panman and former Bay Area resident, left us on Saturday. What a loss of a great thinker, music player, composer, arranger !

A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Arnold was also a competent soccer player, earning the sobriquet of "Samba Man" for his clever and resourceful approach to the game. He was a strong believer in "no man cyar run faster than the ball" and also "better to let the opposition come and take the ball off your foot than to make a stupid pass and give it to them".

Arnold was exceptionally strong in musical harmony. He would apply chords to a tune and almost give you a sound theoretical explanation of why he uses this chord instead of another workable one.

Despite all this seemingly theoretical machination, Arnold would never lose sight of the fact, as he explained to us over the years, that.. "music is not chords, music is colour".In conversation and discussion about the affairs of the world..be it politics, economics, global warming, North-American supra-nationalism, neo-colonialism (Caribbean style,) Arnold was never to be found wanting, or not 'au courant'.

His knowledge and insightfulness were impeccable and a pleasure to witness.Dumb me, I should have stayed closer to him to help me with my music ..I have been around some very good and some brilliant musicians in my day..but few have better demonstrated, despite all theirknowledge, that music is still an art form..and there are more instances of chords in the wrong places than wrong chords.

Arnold was a joy to be around and we have all learned from him. He will be missed.

RIP